Posted on 03/12/2021 10:29:06 AM PST by Beowulf9
If you've ever driven up the East Coast, you may have driven over the Tappan Zee Bridge. The span — north of New York City — was built in the spot that seems to make the least economic sense. Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Unions.
It was their last chance. They’d already tried Tappan Aye through Tappan Why.
I’ll show myself out...
And other people’s money.
To read later. The span is three miles. In a VW bug it was scary
Tappan - the leader in bridges since 1881.
Great article, hat-tip NPR. They still need to be de-funded from the taxpayers.
But, to the tappen zee:
Dewey Cheatem and Howe.
Maybe because that’s the most shallow water area around?
...The site of the bridge, at the Hudson River’s second-widest point, added to construction costs. The site was chosen to be as close as possible to New York City, while staying out of the 25-mile (40 km) range of the Port Authority’s influence, thus ensuring that revenue from collected tolls would go to the newly created New York State Thruway Authority, and not the Port Authority..
The notion that it had to be built in the same spot because “towns have grown up around it” is nonsense. The population of Nyack, the largest town “around it” is only 12% larger than it was when the road was first built. The real issue is that building the highway at the outlet of the “Tappan Zee (Sea)” would mean impossibly long environmental studies... decades... that would probably end up costing as many billions as were wasted rebuilding the bridge where it stands.
It will always be the Tappan Zee Bridge to me, instead of what it was renamed, which I will not mention. And I won’t mention who renamed it. Same goes for the Triboro Bridge.
Anywhere in a VW Bug was scary.
🤣 oh yeah.
For those intereste, the quick version is that the governor directed that the bridge be built the bridge at a wide part of the river further north so that the toll revenue would go to the State of New York rather than the City of New York Port Authority.
Same here!
Polaks-they do things the hard way.
Read the article!
“ KESTENBAUM: Hintersteiner says this is a lousy place to build a bridge. The river floor is mucky. If they’d built this at a narrower part of the river, would we be in this mess?
HINTERSTEINER: No, due to the fact that they would have hit solid rock”.
Loooong story short...”- if he had let the bridge be built further south, where the river narrows, it would have been in Port Authority territory and the Port Authority, not the state of New York, would have gotten the revenue.”
Now you don’t have to give npr a click.
“Anywhere in a VW Bug was scary.”
Ya, well, then there’s that. They used to tell us to open the windows for bridge crossing. Then no don’t open the windows. A windy day and the Throgs Neck was terrifying. But the TZ. Whoa.
It was built in the location it is because it had to be outside of the Port Authority, which controls the George Washington Bridge (also a Hudson River crossing) so that NYS could get the toll revenue and not the Port Authority. Also, it was built next to Tarrytown, NY so that it was a convenient drive for the Rockefeller family who has a massive swath of property in that area known as Pocantico. Governor Rockefeller could not possibly have been inconvenienced while driving to Albany by driving too far from his mansion.
And that fascist bastard Andrew Cuomo forced the state legislature to change the name of the bridge to the Mario Cuomo Bridge. New York governors have had a history of being extremely arrogant and corrupt.
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